Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Sep 28 2020 - 11:59:08 EST


On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 12:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char
> pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this
> array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call.

Isn't this also common for things like ring buffers?
Why limit this to char *[]?